“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”
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Mother Teresa
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”
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Mother Teresa
“I have more often as my companion "darkness." And when the night becomes very thick- and it seems to me as if I will end up in hell- then I simply offer myself to Jesus.”
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Mother Teresa
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
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Mother Teresa
“In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving.
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Mother Teresa
“How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers."
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Mother Teresa
“Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.”
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Mother Teresa
“In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.”
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Mother Teresa
“If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.”
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Mother Teresa
“Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.”
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Mother Teresa
“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
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Mother Teresa
“I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.”
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Mother Teresa
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.”
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Mother Teresa
“When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.”
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Mother Teresa
